This semester i took the class foundations of College Writing with Dr. Sherry. In this class we learned how to show information to different types of audiences in a bunch of different genres. In my portfolio I will be showing what i have worked on in this class to show that I've done the goals set. First we did the EAR project. In this project i wrote about college drinking and all of the problems that come with it and what students can do other than go party and drinking. Then i took that information and changed it for the CLUE project for the audience of students, parents, and Business companies. For my last project, we had to talk about our past, present and future experiences that taught us what it means to be educated.
Goal A- Students will be able to compose for particular audiences and purposes
This goal states that students can write to different types of audiences. I learned in this class that there are many ways to make this possible. For this goal i have chosen a poster i made to parents of incoming freshman not to worry about their child of college drinking and how serious Bloomsburg takes it. I used the information from my previous project to make the poster, and the information i knew from being a student at Bloomsburg the consequences of drinking on campus. For my poster i think it was a better approach to keep it simple for parents. straight to the point.
The point of my poster is to get across to parents that underage drinking is very serious and actions will be held. I think it was easier to read for this topic that i used a poster.
Goal B-Students will be able to compose using language and conventions appropriate to genre.
For this goal i'll use my CLUE project. in this project we picked a topic we think is an issue for students. I picked college drinking because i feel like its everywhere and its kinda the normal thing around here nowadays. For this project, i conducted interviews and time diaries with friends and peers. Time diaries are logs of how people spent their time during the day. This helped me write my paper because it told me how often students do go out. I used the conventions that we used in class; problem, background, method, findings, and conclusion. These help for me to keep the paper and organized for readers.
This writing style was new to me.. I feel it is more professional and honestly more easier to read. Im used to writing thesis papers and i really think this is a more easier method.
Goal C-Students will be able to read, select, and use evidence critically to formulate andsupport arguments.
This goal is stating that we will be able to read and use evidence from the reading to make arguments and give support. For this I'm going to use my clue project again. In this project we needed to research that worked with our topic. I feel we really worked hard on this because we spent days researching. A lot of the research i found i used to incorporate quotes into my paper.
“As drinking motives are based, in part, on expectations of desired outcomes, social drinking motives may be related to a perception that drinking alcohol might contribute to positive social outcomes such as friendships”(Grant, 2013, pg 97).
This quote states that the motive behind college drinking is that people do it for social reasons. they want to have fun or get away from a terrible week. People also do it to make friendships.
Goal D- Students will be able to interpret and compose in a variety of media and print/nonprint genres.
This goal states that we'll be able to understand and write in different kinds of media/genres. An example is the CRAP principles we learned in class. CRAP is an acronym that stands for Contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. For the EAR project we had to use each of these principles.
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C-I liked the contrast with all three of these brochures. The blues really stood out to me and wanted to see what they were talking about. R-All of these brochures have different kinds of repetition throughout them. Some titles are bigger than others and some of the text too. A-all of them have good alignment with each other, and works well. P-everything has a place and is grouped to what the brochure is talking about. P-All of these brochures are to influence people to come to their company for a reason they might need. A-any one who would need their services. G-brochure E-who ever made the brochure get more of a satisfaction of what they're trying to get out there to promote their business.
Goal E- Students will be able to discuss and apply appropriate writing processes both individually and in collaborative contexts. This means rohr we'll be able to make revisions by ourselves and the help of others. After each project we needed to fill out a peer review sheet after we have met with others. I found this to pretty helpful with things i was stuck on or didn't understand how to do, and extra ideas were very helpful too. Later, Dr. Sherry would email us about our draft and what he thought about we should do to our projects to make them better.
The email from Dr. Sherry:
Name: Alexandria Herniak
Project: TELL
Draft Checklist:
Does the author include:
YES
NO
Past, present, and future stories about what it means to him/her to be educated
X
A clear link among the three stories
X
o Connects stories to each other
X
o Connects stories to what it means to be educated
X
Specific, telling details in each story (e.g., Appearance, Dialogue, Action, Point of view, Treatment by others)
X
o Footnote labels for at least three uses of specific, telling details (see assignment)
X
The author most needs to work on:
Love the choice of stories so far—thanks for sharing these parts of your experience! J
Complete a draft with all three stories/link/specific, telling details
More clearly link the stories (consider linking to your definition of what it means to be educated )
Add specific, telling details: consider using the ADAPT heuristic I provided to elaborate each scene, but especially the FUTURE
I look forward to reading your next draft! J
Preliminary Grade (not a final; this is meant to help you know what to focus on)
Criterion/Grade
4.0
3.0
2.0
1.0
Organization: arranges relevant details clearly to accomplish purpose(s)
X
Content : uses details thoroughly and specifically to make point(s)
X
Conventions: style and grammar match the models read in class (models)
X
Technique: uses composing practices discussed in class (ADAPT)
X
After this email i did whatever i could to make it better and really took into consideration of what he had to say. I really appreciated this because i feel like he really cares about our work and wants the best for us.
Foundations of Writing
Dr. Sherry
This semester i took the class foundations of College Writing with Dr. Sherry. In this class we learned how to show information to different types of audiences in a bunch of different genres. In my portfolio I will be showing what i have worked on in this class to show that I've done the goals set. First we did the EAR project. In this project i wrote about college drinking and all of the problems that come with it and what students can do other than go party and drinking. Then i took that information and changed it for the CLUE project for the audience of students, parents, and Business companies. For my last project, we had to talk about our past, present and future experiences that taught us what it means to be educated.
Goal A- Students will be able to compose for particular audiences and purposes
This goal states that students can write to different types of audiences. I learned in this class that there are many ways to make this possible. For this goal i have chosen a poster i made to parents of incoming freshman not to worry about their child of college drinking and how serious Bloomsburg takes it. I used the information from my previous project to make the poster, and the information i knew from being a student at Bloomsburg the consequences of drinking on campus. For my poster i think it was a better approach to keep it simple for parents. straight to the point.
My poster:
The point of my poster is to get across to parents that underage drinking is very serious and actions will be held. I think it was easier to read for this topic that i used a poster.
Goal B-Students will be able to compose using language and conventions appropriate to genre.
For this goal i'll use my CLUE project. in this project we picked a topic we think is an issue for students. I picked college drinking because i feel like its everywhere and its kinda the normal thing around here nowadays. For this project, i conducted interviews and time diaries with friends and peers. Time diaries are logs of how people spent their time during the day. This helped me write my paper because it told me how often students do go out. I used the conventions that we used in class; problem, background, method, findings, and conclusion. These help for me to keep the paper and organized for readers.
My Clue paper:
This writing style was new to me.. I feel it is more professional and honestly more easier to read. Im used to writing thesis papers and i really think this is a more easier method.
Goal C-Students will be able to read, select, and use evidence critically to formulate and support arguments.
This goal is stating that we will be able to read and use evidence from the reading to make arguments and give support. For this I'm going to use my clue project again. In this project we needed to research that worked with our topic. I feel we really worked hard on this because we spent days researching. A lot of the research i found i used to incorporate quotes into my paper.
“As drinking motives are based, in part, on expectations of desired outcomes, social drinking motives may be related to a perception that drinking alcohol might contribute to positive social outcomes such as friendships”(Grant, 2013, pg 97).
This quote states that the motive behind college drinking is that people do it for social reasons. they want to have fun or get away from a terrible week. People also do it to make friendships.
Clue Project:
Goal D- Students will be able to interpret and compose in a variety of media and print/nonprint genres.
This goal states that we'll be able to understand and write in different kinds of media/genres. An example is the CRAP principles we learned in class. CRAP is an acronym that stands for Contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. For the EAR project we had to use each of these principles.
C-I liked the contrast with all three of these brochures. The blues really stood out to me and wanted to see what they were talking about.
R-All of these brochures have different kinds of repetition throughout them. Some titles are bigger than others and some of the text too.
A-all of them have good alignment with each other, and works well.
P-everything has a place and is grouped to what the brochure is talking about.
P-All of these brochures are to influence people to come to their company for a reason they might need.
A-any one who would need their services.
G-brochure
E-who ever made the brochure get more of a satisfaction of what they're trying to get out there to promote their business.
Goal E- Students will be able to discuss and apply appropriate writing processes both individually and in collaborative contexts.
This means rohr we'll be able to make revisions by ourselves and the help of others. After each project we needed to fill out a peer review sheet after we have met with others. I found this to pretty helpful with things i was stuck on or didn't understand how to do, and extra ideas were very helpful too. Later, Dr. Sherry would email us about our draft and what he thought about we should do to our projects to make them better.
The email from Dr. Sherry:
Name: Alexandria Herniak
Project: TELL
Draft Checklist:
The author most needs to work on:
I look forward to reading your next draft! J
Preliminary Grade (not a final; this is meant to help you know what to focus on)
After this email i did whatever i could to make it better and really took into consideration of what he had to say. I really appreciated this because i feel like he really cares about our work and wants the best for us.